Wait... Would somebody mind explaining to me what exactly a shiny Pokemon is? I haven't played entirely through a game since Ruby, and I don't believe I've come across anything mentioning shiny Pokemon in Black 2 yet.

Wait... Would somebody mind explaining to me what exactly a shiny Pokemon is? I haven't played entirely through a game since Ruby, and I don't believe I've come across anything mentioning shiny Pokemon in Black 2 yet.

Every Pokmon has an alternate colouration which is called its "shiny".Their alternate colours can be a drastic change such as light blue Mew instead of pink, or a small change such as a slightly darker brown Bouffalant. They're very rare to encounter randomly, you have a 1/8192 in the wild. However, if you use the Masuda Method of breeding, that is you breed two Pokemon from different language games, then the shiny hatch rate of the egg changes to 1/1366.

The moment I saw that the last post was made by Phi I thought she finally got a shiny

Personally I prefer Serebii because it's made entirely for the game usage and Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia filled with every inch of information about the Pokemon like manga appearences, trivia and such. Whenever I use Bulbapedia I get confused and have a hard time finding things I need in that huge page.